The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-07-21


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Factory, But WIN Nos Take service.
This 70 the month for quitting New York
for pleasure, and, strangely enough, Of
coming to It for the same purpose. Yes.
the metropolis not only helps largely to
populate the watering places, but 10 con-
siderable Of summer resort herself.
Thousands Of Southerners and Cubans
spend part Of every summer season
here, and many fashionable boarding
house, deserted by its regular inmates, 10
filled profitsbly by these visitors. But
the New Yorker can fnd nothing at-
tractive enough, aside from imperative
business, to keep him on the hot pave
nents, and the hegira has already set in.
A freak Of fashion this year 10 to turn
noses up at popular resorts and spend
the heated term in truly rural pla ces. II
Il this growing custom Of spending the
warm months at such retreats. and the
life which is lived there, which will
account for the number OF young
women with the red showing through
the brown on their cheeks, whom
We will see here in the city next October.
To be delicate" is no longer the fashion.
Health 10 again coming to be recognized
as beauty. A few wealthy men have
been 90 pleased with the old homesteads
where their families have spent summers
that they have bought the places, paying
their owners handsome prices for them.
I know man who last season asked an
old Long Island farmer what he would
take to move out and deliver the old
place to him just as 1t stood. The farmer
was well-to-do, satisfied and didn't
want to sell; so he named price which
he thought was clear Of reason. But
the city man surprised him by drawing Q
check. The new owner of the place
brought down his gardener, and that
artistic parsonage began to talk about .
new fence, new barn doors, trimming the
shrubbery and all that sort of thing;
whereupon the New Yorker said no-not
q shrub must be touched, not nail of
the fence moved, not q gate hinge re-
paired. He wanted it just as he found It.
The first of summer leaves nobody in
ance of babies in the metropolis. The
tered by them. as will be the case as long
as hot weather lasts; and there is about
as much juvenility out of doors in those
more fashionable quarters called fats,
for the departures to rural resorts among
those financially luckier people will not
be numerous until July. The creepers
and toddlers here are attended by nurse
maids, neat in their white caps and
aprons, idle except for the light duties of
keeping their little charges clean and
safe, and altogether the best placed
among servants.
"Just think of It r. said keeper in an
employment. agency. "These nurse
maids get from &fO to 920 month,
the average being $14 They must be
tidy in person, and know how to
take care Of . child. Not 90 much
skill 10 required Of them % of the COM
monest cook or laundress; their work 10
very light. They are put into the best
sleeping-rooms In order to be with the
youngsters at night, and by day they
lounge in the parks. Taking their board
into account, they get - good - dollar
to dollar and . half day. That is -
much - the average wages Of salesgirls
in the stores, and considerably above the
earnings of the hard-working girls in the
cigar, clothing, flower and other fac
tories. You'd suppose that such places
would be sought after; and 30 they are,
but entirely by foreign-born girls, except
for negroes, who generally are not
wanted. The nursemaids are Swedish,
American. Girls born in this city seem
to inherit pride from the soil. They will
not 90 into menial service, especially Q
branch Of 1t which requires them to wear
anything like livery"
have taken view of ninety. eight of
the homes in which pride and poverty
keep girls who might, II they would
wear the garb Of servitude. live in posi-.
tive luxury. They are oil under one
roof-that ON the tenement-house at 90
Mott street, known 40 the "Big Flat"
Each fiat has three rooms, and an aver
age Of five sleep In the same rooms until
they are nearly adults. Good light and
air are only to be had by going Into the
street for them; refinement is physical
and moral impossibility; discomfort 10
constant and disease frequent, and vet
there are in the building 178 girls be-
tween the ages of fifteen and twenty
five, all preferring their bad surround
| ings and Independence to good quarters
| and what they regard - slavery. Who
shall say that their choice 10 unreason-
able or wrongi But 1t 10 . pity that
they cannot enjoy Q safer kind of
liberty. Sanitary dangers are by no means
the worst that daily menace them.
Vice 10 not content with tempting them.
Four of them appeared in the Tombs
police court the other day as complainants
against some Cinnamon, who had by
force tried to get them into an opium den
into which one of the fifth-story fats has
been transformed. saw Crime and
foulness everywhere that I looked ON
the premises. heard profanity and
obscenity. / had witnessed as unpleas-
ant aspects of domesticity. but never
SO much of the kind in mass.
A typical Bowery girl was leaning
against the outer doorp0st. She was
clean by contrast with the house, had an
intelligent face, and was twenty or so.
She was gazing with manifest contempt
ON some Bavarian woman who were still
wearing the peasant cnstumes In which
they made their voyage TO America
Their clothes were neat, whole and
shapely, and the texture was better than
her own garb; but the fashion of them
was foreign, clsss-indicating, and there.
fore degrading.
"Have you got . job p asked.
"Not this week." she replied; ''there
Amt nothing doing In the shops now"